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Coto
Continues on Dangerous Course of Traffic Incidents

While Incident Rate Lower, Still at Critical Levels

Posted By CotoBlogzz 04-04-2011

Coto de Caza, CA - The good news for Coto de Caza residents is that the quarter-to-quarter accident rate for the quarter ending March 31, 2011 is significantly down
from the previous quarter. The bad news is that it is still at the same levels as when the community experienced its two traffic fatalities within a three month period between December 2005 and March 2006

Traditionally,
the Coto de Caza governance (the CZ Master Association board of
directors) has been more concerned with form,
rather than substance. For example, while it pays a security
company close to $2 million/year to act as a glorified courier
service/meter maid, it spends just 5% of that on the California
Highway Patrol (CHP), the only option in the community for real public
safety. That is roughly $4.00/year per person. Big Daddy next door,
the City of Rancho Santa Margarita, (RSM) pays the county some
$8 million per year for Orange County Sheriff Department services, or
some $160.00 per person. Any ideas as to what will happen when
RSM annexes Coto de Caza.

Year

Incidents

2001

12

2002

15

2003

22

2004

28

2005

30

2006

24

2007

21

2008

16

2009

19

2010

27

2011

24

Left - Coto de Caza
traffic accident trending as of March 31, 2011. Notice sharp
quarter-to-quarter decrease from December 2010, although rate
is at the same levels as when the community experienced its
two traffic fatalities within a three month period
between December 2005 and March 2006

Left- Same figures
as above, however, because of sharp changes, the last three
quarters averaged out

Worst
- while the Coto de Caza governance concerns itself more with
hanging on to an archaic
and corrupt delegate system, instead of holding direct elections
as the California legislature intended when it passed SB61 in 2006 and
neglecting public safety, predictably, the Traffic Incident
Divide between Coto de Caza and its neighbor, Ladera
Ranch increases. In 2007 CZ directors Varo/Mezger
ridiculed Ladera Ranch residents, insisting that because Ladera Ranch residents were making a public spectacle, CHP hours that otherwise might be allocated to Coto de Caza, were
not, for example.

Historical
perspective:
In 2002 when the CZ Master Association board
of directors fired the CHP without a suitable alternative for
proactive traffic patrol, the
accident
rate climbed up significantly culminating on a
traffic fatality on December
7, 2005, the first traffic fatality in the community.
Eventually, the board was coerced into bringing back the CHP,
however, it let road certification expire, neutralizing the
CHP effectiveness, as the CHP could not issue citations, and
the second traffic fatality was recorded three months later.

The 4Q2010 CHP statistics are
even more frightening - the traffic accident rate is at an
all-time high and CHP patrol at an all-time low- a fatality
begging to happen!

The
Ladera Ranch traffic accident rate for the quarter ending March 31,
2011, remains in check and at an
order of magnitude less per capita, compared to its neighbors in Coto
de Caza.

NOTE:
During the 2007 CZ Master Association Candidate’s Night,
incumbents Varo/Mezger insisted that because Ladera Ranch
residentswere
making a public spectacle,CHP
hours that
otherwise might be allocated to Coto de Caza, were not.

The
Bell Syndrome seems to spread in communities where residents
are apathetic, ignorant or a combination thereof. All
indications are the Coto residents fall in the
aforementioned categories.

1Q2011 - Ladera
Ranch, Traffic Accidents Trending- Source: CHP SJC

The
4Q2010 traffic accidents for Ladera Ranch include two DUIs,
two personal injury and eight property damage for a total
of ten traffic collisions.

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board of directors and much consternation from
the community, the CZ Master Association board of
directors renewed thecontract
with the California Highway Patrol(CHP)
for traffic enforcement, as well it should. The
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the Orange County Board of Supervisors for OCSD
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and as a former Board Member of the CZ Master
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letter constitutes a formal complaint against the CZ
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Keystone Pacific Property Management, 29883 Santa
Margarita Parkway, Rancho Santa Margarita, California
92688 and James Harkin, representative attorney at
Caine, Walker and Harkins, 17821 East 17thStreet,
Suite 140, Tustin, California 92780. The current
CZ Master Board of Directors and their agents have
consistently acted in violation of their fiduciary
responsibility, our governing documents and laws of
the state of California specific to homeowner and
corporate governance codes and statutes as follows

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Vandalism reports shows that a favorite Coto de Caza
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between kids and adults) and a criminal...

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Board of Directors calling the CHP extortionists
during open board meetings, the Orange County Board of
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